On this page you will find - pictures taken at the Mueller Canada Plant in Milton Ontario - a list of fire hydrant manufacturers, past and present, that directly or indirectly make hydrants, as found in Burlington. Many of the manufacturers listed are no longer in business, have sold their hydrant divisions, merged with others, or changed names.

1871.
McWane, Inc.
traces its origins to a mill in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
where James McWane
was a mill worker. His grandsons Henry and
Jim helped organize the
Lynchburg Plow Works in 1896.

1854.

Radnor Foundry of Trois Rivieres, QE
Canron Inc's traces back to this foundry

1990
Clow Canada
McWane establishes
Clow Canada through
amalgamating acquisitions
that included
T. McAvity & Sons, Ltd.
(previously a division of Crane) and Concord Daigle. The manufacturing operations
in Canada were consolidated in a
plant in St. Johns, NB

1997. Clow Canada adds Bibby hydrants to its product line

1990

Crane Canada sells McAvidy division to Clow Canada

1990

Concord- Daigle sells assets to McWane. Hydrants are now made in St. Johns NB

1956

Darling valve and Mfg. Co acquires Philip Gies Foundry and Canada Valve & Hydrant
1966. Production moved from Brantford ON to Kitchener ON

1997

Canada Pipe acquires
* Bibby Ste-Croix Foundries (1840) and acquired the Sentinel hydrant line
* Bibby Waterworks, Hamilton ON
* Bibby Foundry, Oakville ON as well as 5 other foundries

Mueller Co. sets up shop in Sarnia Canada. Starting under the name of H. Meuller Mfg. Co. Ltd., the name was changed to Mueller Limited

1985

Mueller Limited acquires Canada Valve and the two companies were restructured, becoming Mueller Canada Inc. and Canada Valve. The Canada Valve operations split with the distribution marketing group remaining as Canada Valve and the manufacturing facility at Milton, Ontario becoming part of Mueller Canada Inc. The original Darling design hydrants are still produced by Mueller Canada.

Link to the past. This logo is a "C" and a "V". It stands for "Canada Valve" and is on the Darling models of the mid 1980's and the Century model hydrant manufactured by the Meuller Group.

The London Foundry was located on King Street at the river in downtown London from about 1880 to about 1930. It produced a wide range of castings as shown on this trade card. By 1909, or earlier, fire hydrants were added to the line of products.

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Manufactured by the
London Foundry Ltd.
London Ont.

Willis Chapman
Engineer 1909

This 1909 hydrant made by The London Foundry was one of the first hydrants installed in Burlington